Food made of maize or Indian corn boiled, the maize being either coarsely ground, or broken, or the kernels merely hulled.--Flint, Mississippi Valley. Also written hommony. Roger Williams, in his Key to the Indian Language, has the word aupúminea, parched corn--which, with the accent on the second syllable, has much the sound of hominy.
The Indians sift the flour out of their meal, which they call samp; the remainder they call homminy. This is mixt with flour and made into puddings.--Josselyn's New England Rarities, 1672, p. 53.